Beowulf ond Godsylla

[pegkerr]

Someone sent me this today:

Meanehwæl, baccat meaddehæle, monstær lurccen;
Fulle few too many drincce, hie luccen for fyht.
Ðen Hreorfneorhtðhwr, son of Hrwærowþheororthwl,
Æsccen æwful jeork to steop outsyd.
Þhud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom! Ðe bigge gye
Eallum his bon brak, byt his nose offe;
Wicced Godsylla wæld on his asse.
Monstær moppe fleor wyþ eallum men in hælle.
Beowulf in bacceroome fonecall bamaccen wæs;
Hearen sond of ruccus sæd, "Hwæt ðe helle?"
Graben sheold strang ond swich-blæd scharp
Stond feorth to fyht ðe grimlic foe.
"Me," Godsylla sæd, "mac ðe minsemete."
Heoro cwyc geten heold wiþ fæmed half-nelson
Ond flyng him lic frisbe bac to fen
Beowulf belly up to meaddehæle bar,
Sæd, "Ne foe beaten mie færsom cung-fu."
Eorderen cocca-cohla yce-coeld, ðe reol þyng.

A Parody by Tom Weller
from Cvltvre Made Stupid (Culture Made Stupid), Houghton Mifflin, 1987.


I now want to read the rest of this book. Alas, I understand that it's out of print and very hard to find.

Comments

[kaustin.livejournal.com]

Would you like me to loan you my copy?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would like to borrow it from you sometime. Thanks!

[kaustin.livejournal.com]

OK. If you wanted to show up to a MnStf meeting I could bring it and give it to you there. The next meeting is at Dean Gahlon and Laura Krentz's on July 24th. They've declared it to be a Harry Potter themed meeting. The meeting after that is the MnStf picnic on August 7th. If those don't work out I'm sure we could figure out something else. Would you also like me to loan you my copy of Science Made Stupid?

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

yeah, looks like it:

http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/RefineRare.fcgi?id=040709084302366235

[fairmer.livejournal.com]

Oh... (crestfallen) it's not actually OE, but an imitation.

I like this better: Hrodulf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Here begins the deeds of Rudolph, Tundra-Wanderer...)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Oh that's gorgeous. Am posting a link in my journal, there are a bunch of people I know in Cambridge who read Old English and will be tickled by that.

[fairmer.livejournal.com]

Isn't it lovely? The Latin of the title is perfect as well; the proper tradition of Englishes past.

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

Ha! Marvelous! Thank you for sharing :)

It's wonderful

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

I have Culture Made Stupid and will loan it. An ex-boyfriend made off with Science Made Stupid, also WELL worth finding.

~Amanda

[willow-wode.livejournal.com]

*laughing*

Oh, my, this is SPLENDID. Thank you for sharing, though I suspect now I'll be haunting the used booksellers in vain...

[klostes.livejournal.com]

ROFLOL! Oh, I have tears in my eyes. That's just brilliant!

And, going to www.bookfinder.com, there were four used copies available. Not cheap, but around $40 each.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

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[mizkit.livejournal.com]

That's *wonderful*. I must haunt my local used bookstore now. :)

for Latinists (and others)

[leaina.livejournal.com]

Along the same lines, a summary of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (from ShrinkLits by Maurice Sagoff:

Caesar cari dona militari orgi versus Belgae,
Helvetii, Germani, Venetii, Britanni--iunemit.
"Romis glorius," sed Caesar, "Nomen me impunit!"
Meni tridit--Vercingetorix, forin stans--
Caesar noctim sili fors ticinis nec aut.
Ab ludi, nervi felo, Caius Julius, iubet.

(And because I can't resist, the first two lines--the best ones--from the summary of Beowulf:

Monster Grendel's tastes are plainish.
Breakfast? Just a couple Danish.)

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind me poking my nose into your LJ, but I just loved this parody! It brings back such memories of my Anglo-Saxon studies at uni. Yet this (somehow!) is more easily understandable! ;)